The feeling that existed between the East and the West is
changing in the Light of Bahá'u'lláh's teaching. It used to be that if a
Westerner drank from the cup of an Easterner the cup would be thought polluted,
and the Easterner would break it. Now it is, with believers, that when a
Westerner dines with an Easterner, the vessels and the plates that he has used
are kept apart and reverenced in his memory.
- 'Abdu'l-Baha (From a compilation: ‘Discourses
of ‘Abdu’l-Baha given in London and Paris’; Star of the West, vol. 2, no. 19,
March 2, 1912)
